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Time of India
11-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Vizhinjam port completes a year of operations
T'puram: Vizhinjam International Seaport on Friday completed a year since the first ship docked at the port. Since July 11 last year, the port has handled 393 ships and 8.3 lakh containers. Minister V N Vasavan said that it is a landmark moment for the port. "In this period, Vizhinjam achieved remarkable progress that amazed the world. The ship San Fernando arrived with containers on July 11, 2024, and commercial operations began in Dec 2024," the minister said. In the past year, 392 ships arrived at Vizhinjam, including 23 ultra-large container ships like the MSC Irina, which is considered one of the largest container ships in the world. Many of these ships, including the Irina, berthed in India for the first time, Vasavan added. "Vizhinjam has become one of the rare ports globally to operate at full capacity within the initial months of commercial operation. It paved the way for India to demonstrate its capability to operate ports using advanced technologies like automation and AI," he added. For the past four months, Vizhinjam ranked first among ports on India's southeastern coast. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Đây có thể là thời điểm tốt nhất để giao dịch vàng trong 5 năm qua IC Markets Tìm hiểu thêm Undo The training of local women to become India's first female automated crane operators gained international attention, the minister said. Through social responsibility initiatives in health, education, and skill development, the project supported over 100,000 people. As the first year is celebrated with pride, the second phase of construction, expected to cost over Rs 10,000 crores, will soon commence, Vasavan said. Vizhinjam is set to become a gateway to India's maritime dominance. The port is also gearing up to start EXIM cargo soon after the road connectivity is ready. The rail connectivity work will be completed in three years.
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
'Alien' skull of toddler is actually evidence of long-standing practice of head shaping
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. While installing a water pipeline in Argentina last month, workers stumbled upon the skull of a child who was buried at least 700 years ago. The archaeological discovery quickly garnered media attention because of the asymmetry of the skull, drawing comparisons to aliens. But the flattening on the back of the skull, which belonged to a 3- to 4-year-old child, is simply the result of the cultural practice of head shaping, Cristian Sebastián Melián, director of the Provincial Directorate of Anthropology in Catamarca, Argentina, told Live Science in a translated email. The skull was found on May 27 in the town of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca in northwestern Argentina. When archaeologists investigated the pits made in the infrastructure project, they found broken and burned llama remains, along with a ceramic vessel typical of pottery from the Inca occupation there between 1430 and 1530, Melián said. But the child's skull was found several feet away along with the rest of the skeleton, which was placed in the grave in the fetal position. Although the child had no grave goods, pottery fragments in the dirt suggested a date of death around 1100 to 1300. The archaeologists did not see any trauma on the child's skeleton, but they noted the "pronounced cultural cranial alteration of the oblique tabular type," Melián said. The practice of head shaping, or cranial modification, dates back thousands of years and has been found in all parts of the world. While some cultures used long stretches of cloth wrapped around a baby's head to create an elongated shape, others applied padding to the front or back of the baby's head to create a flatter shape. Nowadays, often for medical purposes, parents may employ a special helmet to ensure their baby has a round, symmetrical head. Related: 'Cone-headed' skull from Iran was bashed in 6,200 years ago, but no one knows why The child's skull found in San Fernando was likely shaped using padding to encourage the "oblique tabular" shape, which is flat or sloping at the front and back of the skull. This practice can cause the sides of the skull to widen and appear bulged. RELATED STORIES —Viking Age women with cone-shaped skulls likely learned head-binding practice from far-flung region —Hirota people of Japan intentionally deformed infant skulls 1,800 years ago —Deformed skulls and ritual beheadings found at Maya pyramid in Mexico Most scholars of ancient head shaping agree that the practice had few, if any, negative health consequences. Instead, experts say the practice was linked to social identity or to child-rearing preferences. Currently, the Provincial Directorate of Anthropology has more than 100 skulls from ancient people in its skeletal collection, Melián said, and evidence of head shaping is extremely common. "Approximately 90% of them have an erect or oblique tabular shape" to their skulls, Melián said.
GMA Network
30-06-2025
- Business
- GMA Network
Solon on P50 wage hike in NCR: Barya na naman
"Barya na naman," was how a lawmaker described the wage hike in the NCR. Kamanggagawa party-list Rep. Eli San Fernando said the P50 hike in the minimum wage in the National Capital Region (NCR) announced by the wage board was "small change" (barya). 'Barya na naman. Ang hinihingi ng mga mga manggagawa, legislated wage increase, P200 pesos. Ang binigay, P50. Iyan mismo 'yung binabanggit namin na 'yung mga regional wage courts, they are not responsive to the needs of the workers,' he said. Bills seeking to abolish regional wage rates, ban contractualization, and increase wages were among the measures filed during Day 1 of the 20th Congress at the House of Representatives. 'We want to repeal Republic Act (RA) 6727 (Wage Rationalization Act), which provides for the provincial rates because it is time for a uniform minimum wage in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. We can only do that if we repeal RA 6727,' San Fernando told reporters. Another bill he filed sought to amend Articles 106 and 107 of the Labor Code to ban contractualization. "Contractualization is already, in fact, illegal, but it remains rampant due to the presence of manpower agencies,' he added. The lawmaker said he also filed a bill mandating the provision of sick leave and vacation leave, which he said is not explicitly stated in the Labor Code and thus, is only implemented based on employers' prerogative. 'Those sick and vacation leaves are not under the Labor Code. What we have in the Labor Code now is Service Incentive Leave,' he said. Makabayan lawmakers Antonio Tinio of ACT Teachers party-list and Renee Co of Kabataan, meanwhile, filed for a P1,200 national minimum wage. 'Ito ang kailangan ng ating mga kababayan: Nakakabuhay na sahod,' Tinio said in a separate interview. (This is what the Filipino workers need: A living wage.) Another bill filed by Makabayan bloc lawmakers is the Presyo Ibaba bill, which seeks to remove taxes on basic commodities. The proposed legislated minimum wage hike in the 19th Congress, which is pegged at P200 at the House and P100 in the Senate, did not pass into law because the two chambers of Congress failed to reconcile them in time. House spokesperson Princess Abante, however, maintained that House Speaker Martin Romualdez's support for the wage hike bills remains even though the Speaker is yet to file his bill seeking a wage hike. 'We saw the support of Speaker Romualdez when it comes to wage hike. Hindi naman 'yan nagbabago. Even during the 19th Congress, there were different versions of the wage hike bill, and it would need consultations with different labor groups and members of the House to ensure that the bill can be implemented,' Abante said. "We have a strong starting point with what happened with the 19th Congress when we passed it on third and final reading. We are looking forward to seeing that same support for the legislation proposed on the wage hike,' she added.—LDF, GMA Inregrated News
Sunday World
04-06-2025
- General
- Sunday World
Irish man seriously injured after being gored in chest during Spanish bull run
The Irishman was rushed by ambulance to Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, where he underwent emergency surgery for four hours An Irishman who was injured during a bull run in Spain on Saturday remains in hospital in a 'serious but stable condition'. The 43-year-old victim underwent four hours of surgery after he was gored in the chest by the bull during the San Fernando de Henares patron saint festivities near Madrid. According to local media, the running of the bulls took place at 11am on the Paseo de los Pinos. 'During the run, one of the bulls gored the young man in the chest that was described as 'strong and spectacular' by some witnesses, MiraCorredor reports. After he was treated at the scene, the Irishman was rushed by ambulance to Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, where he underwent emergency surgery for four hours. News in 90 Seconds - 3rd June 2025 By late afternoon, he was in the emergency room and was "stable and out of danger' while awaiting transfer to the ward, according to sources quoted by local media. The victim, described as a 'young man of Irish origin who has lived in Spain for several years' has reportedly suffered head trauma and 'possible retinal detachment' when he was thrown into the aur. A fan of bull runs, he regularly participates as a runner in these types of bullfights held throughout the country. Local media reports that San Fernando de Henares City Council has not provided any official information about what happened. The San Fernando de Henares bull runs are part of a broader celebration of the town's patron saint, San Fernando, and are consider an important part of the local cultural tradition. In Pamplona, which hosts the famous Running of the Bulls festival in Spain, one man was gored and another five rushed to hospital with trauma injuries last summer. A 37-year-old man from Beriáin near Pamplona, where the annual festival takes place every July, is believed to have suffered a gore injury to his palate. The other five casualties included a 54-year-old man from New York. All six runners who needed hospital treatment were men. since records began in 1910, some 16 people have been killed at the annual festival, which was made famous by 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel, The Sun Also Rises. The most recent death was in 2009 when 27-year-old Daniel Jimeno, from Madrid, was gored in the neck by a bull called Capuchino. Between 200 and 300 are usually injured each year at the festival during the bull runs.
CNN
04-06-2025
- General
- CNN
Chile prosecutes individuals alleged to have stolen babies
It's a dark chapter in Chile's history. During the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990, thousands of babies were stolen from their biological mothers and sold into adoption, mainly to foreign couples from the United States and Europe. In Chile, they're known as 'The Children of Silence.' And now, for the first time in the country's history, a Chilean judge announced he was prosecuting individuals alleged to have stolen babies in the country. Alejandro Aguilar Brevis, a Santiago Court of Appeals judge in charge of the investigation 'determined that in the 1980s' there was a network of health officials, Catholic priests, attorneys, social workers and even a judge who detected and delivered stole babies from mainly impoverished mothers and sold them into adoption to foreign couples for as much as $50,000, according to a Monday press release by Chile's judiciary. The investigation, which focuses on the city of San Fernando in central Chile, involves two babies who were stolen and handed over to foreign couples, according to the judiciary statement. According to the statement by Chile's judiciary, the ring allegedly focused on 'abducting or stealing infants for monetary gain' with the purpose of 'taking them out of the country to different destinations in Europe and the US.' The judge charged and issued arrest warrants for five people, who he said should remain in pre-trial detention for 'criminal association, child abduction, and willful misconduct,' the release said. The Chilean government has made an extradition request to Israel for a former Chilean family court judge who now lives there and was allegedly involved, the release added. CNN contacted the judiciary to determine if those involved have legal representation and how they respond to the allegations, but there has been no response so far. The judge ruled that the statute of limitations does not apply in this case because as 'these are crimes against humanity committed under a military regime and must be punished in accordance with the American Convention on Human Rights and the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.' The investigation was announced Monday, one day after Chilean President Gabriel Boric said that a task force he created last year to investigate cases of stolen babies has issued its final report. Following its recommendations, Boric said the Chilean government will 'create a genetic fingerprint bank that will provide additional means of searching for origins and enable family reunification for the many babies who were stolen for so long and given to foreign families.' Constanza del Río, founder and director of Nos Buscamos (We Are Looking for Each Other), a Santiago NGO dedicated to reuniting families of stolen babies said that she feels cautiously optimistic because actions by countries like Chile to find the truth about the stolen babies have been 'very slow and something that revictimizes the victims.' Del Río, herself a victim of an illegal adoption, filed a lawsuit in 2017 demanding an investigation by the Chilean government. Authorities named a special prosecutor, but the investigation went nowhere, she said. Another prosecutor took the case for five years only to declare last year that he hadn't been able 'to establish that any crimes have been committed,' according to Del Rio. President Boric has said creating a task force proves his government is serious about the issue and has spoken publicly about it, recognizing the systematic theft of babies back then as a fact. There could be tens of thousands of cases. The theft of thousands of babies in Chile has been documented for over a decade by non-governmental organizations. Since 2014, CNN has reported about multiple cases where people stolen as babies have reunited with their biological mothers after DNA tests proved they were, in fact, related. Constanza del Río says Nos Buscamos alone has built a database that includes about 9,000 cases and has helped reunite more than 600 parents with their stolen children. Ten years ago, Marcela Labraña, the then-director of the country's child protection agency (SENAME, by its Spanish acronym), told CNN her agency was investigating hundreds of cases but suspected there could be thousands more. 'This is no longer a myth. We know nowadays that this happened, and it was real. It's not a tale that a couple of people were telling,' Labraña said at the time. CNN's Cristopher Ulloa contributed reporting.
